Power Point to DVD is it possible?

[DodgeViper]

I need to capture a Power Point presentation and apply if to a DVD. The power point presentation has no animation. The only items prsent on the file is images, text, and sound track that will come from the CD drive on the coomputer. Can someone steer me in the direction I need to go. I do have access to a DVD burner, but if there is a company that can do this that will work as well. I need the highest quality available as this is of a 25 year reunion.

[elkfir]

Here's a recent thread that discusses this topic:

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=179920&highlight=powerpoint

[Cornucopia]

That's good as far as it goes, but the referred to guide requires that you use Camtasia, which means you're capturing the screen to disk, which means you also need to choose a video codec. Unless you have a whopper of a computer in terms of speed, RAM, and HD speed and size (especially might need RAID), you won't be able to capture this as uncompressed, which means you're compounding the problems with multiple compression stages.
Also, the choice of Nero as an MPEG2 encoder is ludicrous. I'm sure this was chosen for streamlining the process/expediency, but geez! I can think of 20 better encoders.

How to convert this depends on what kind of DVD authoring you have available. If you are able to do a DVD that makes use of slideshows/stillshows, read on...

This is what I'd do (and DO do alot at work):

1. Make sure PPT presentation is set in page setup to On-Screen show. This is a 4:3 aspect ratio.
2. In a Paint app, Create a little graphic that has a rainbow of colors (greater than 256), save as PNG or TIF or something.
3. In PPT, import the PNG rainbow graphic and place off-screen. Do this for every slide. Why? This forces PPT to export in TrueColor as opposed to something less.
4. Go back to Page setup and change the dimensions to 4x (each) what it was. For example, if it was originally 4"x3", make it 16"x12".
5. Export from PPT as *.PNG, exporting ALL slides into a folder.
6. In a photo app (I use Photoshop), open up each PNG and resize down. I use an action so I can batch it. It changes the file from 3200x2400 down to ~576x432. Then it adds black borders all around to fill it out to 640x480, then stretches the horizontal from 640 to 720. Something like that. I do this to get the right final dimensions, but to also have a border so that I can see the whole presentation, even with overscan.
7. Save each of those converted graphics to whatever format your DVD authoring app likes (BMP, TIF, PSD, etc.--notice I didn't say JPEG!) If your app only takes stills as I-Frame MPEGs, do the conversion now. They can be quite high bitrate--use a GOOD encoder!
8. Rip the audio CD to a wav file, and leave as is or convert to AC3 (fairly high bitrate is cool).
9. In your DVD authoring app, create a slide show and set the timing of the slides so that they fit the appropriate points in the music, as long as the end of the slides equals the length of the soundfile.
10. Add any other DVD features you want and burn! It will look gorgeous this way!

If you didn't need the audio, you could have done a user-advanced slideshow. This looks and works almost identical to the original powerpoint.

HTH,
Scott

[DodgeViper]

Has anyone tried this software?

http://www.dvdxcopy.com/products_dxp.asp?a=45907[/url]

[mazinz]

what i had do recently to convert a pp is i ran it out of my pc using the nice video card, into my homedeck dvd recorder and then back into the pc it did not look bad at all, the screen capture was terrible (when i tried that method), so the run out run in method worked the best in my case

[pighead]

There is an application by SeriousMagic called Visual Communicator that will do what you want but it is a little expensive (but not much by video standards) and comes bundled with useful production and burning software, It will turn a pc and Camcorder into a tv studio.

Link is http://www.seriousmagic.com/presentation.cfm

I bought it and it is cool, but I'm too busy to produce content for now!

[Toogy]

Like I posted in the other thread, I used a free program called camstudio and simply recorded the powerpoint presentation as it played. It saved it as an AVI file which I loaded into Vegas Video and added a fade in and out and rendered it as an MPEG-2 DVD in Vegas and then created the DVD in MovieFactory.

Worked flawlessly. It was about a 5 minute presentation and the AVI file was around 80 MB.

It worked great for me, I wouldn't want to do all the other stuff mentioned above.

[lordsmurf]

Has anyone tried this software?

http://www.dvdxcopy.com/products_dxp.asp?a=45907[/url]

I'd like to try this myself.

[mazinz]

me too, good thing they supplied us with a trialware version (i sarcastically say)

[woods]

In fact, there is a special software PowerPoint2DVD can help you, just view this: http://www.powerpoint-to-dvd.com
PowerPoint2DVD is easy-to-use yet pratical tool to convert power point to DVD with your background imges or sound, and many powerful selection menu. It is really great!
Anytime you can search "powerpoint to dvd" at Google or Yahoo, you will also see that page easily![/b]

[Pusher911]

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